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Infection prevention and control
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Medical discipline for preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection
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Infection prevention and control (IPC) is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe, infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health, known as "infection protection" (smittevern,...

Instance of
Preventive healthcare
Subclass of
communicable disease control
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